BIGBANG announce first tour in nine years with London stadium date

BIGBANG have announced their first tour since 2017, a 31-date stadium run celebrating the group's 20th anniversary. G-Dragon, Taeyang and Daesung confirmed the reunion on 11 June, with shows scheduled to begin in August and run into early 2027.

British fans are catered for: the trek includes a date at London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on 26 September, part of a European leg that also takes in the Stade de France in Paris a week earlier.

For a group long regarded as pioneers of the modern K-pop wave, the announcement closes a near-decade-long gap in their touring history and confirms their enduring status as one of the genre's most bankable live draws on the global stage.

A landmark for the live business

Promoted by AEG Presents, the tour opens with three consecutive nights at Goyang Stadium in South Korea from 21 August and closes with two shows at Kaohsiung National Stadium in Taiwan on 27 and 28 February 2027. An official tour title and ticketing details are to follow.

The scale of the booking is striking. A 31-date stadium itinerary spanning Asia, Europe and beyond is the kind of undertaking usually reserved for the very biggest acts in pop, and the multi-night residencies at marquee venues signal real confidence in the trio's drawing power after such a long absence from the road.

“It feels surreal to be back on stage together after all these years.”

— BIGBANG, in a statement

Choosing AEG as promoter places the run firmly within the global stadium circuit, with the company's network of arenas and stadiums giving the tour the logistical backbone to move between continents and sell tickets at scale across very different markets.

The route in brief

The itinerary stitches together home-territory stadium shows with high-capacity European dates and a Taiwanese finale, a structure designed to maximise reach across the group's core Asian fanbase while capitalising on the appetite for K-pop in Western stadiums.

• Opening with three consecutive nights at Goyang Stadium, South Korea, from 21 August
• A European leg taking in the Stade de France in Paris in mid-September
• A London date at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on 26 September
• A run of further international stadium shows across the autumn and winter
• Closing with two shows at Kaohsiung National Stadium, Taiwan, on 27 and 28 February 2027

The London booking is particularly notable. Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has rapidly established itself as a premier concert venue since opening its doors to music, and securing a K-pop act of BIGBANG's stature underlines how far the genre has travelled into the heart of the British live-music mainstream.

Background: pioneers of the K-pop wave

The reunion, which comes after the group performed at Coachella earlier this year, ranks among the most significant live announcements of 2026 and underlines the continuing pull of established K-pop acts in Western stadium markets.

BIGBANG occupy a foundational place in the genre's history, having helped define its sound and visual identity well before the global breakthrough of the acts that followed them. Their long hiatus, shaped by military service obligations and solo careers, only sharpened anticipation among a fanbase that has waited years for a full-scale return. The 20th-anniversary framing turns the tour into a celebration of that legacy as much as a new chapter.

Formed in the mid-2000s, the group rose to prominence with a string of releases that fused hip-hop, electronic and pop influences in a way that proved hugely influential on the generation of acts that came after them. Their members have also pursued substantial solo careers in the intervening years, with G-Dragon in particular regarded as one of the most distinctive creative forces the genre has produced, which has kept the BIGBANG name in circulation even during the band's long pause from collective activity.

That sustained individual visibility helps explain why anticipation for a reunion has remained so high. Where many acts fade during an extended hiatus, BIGBANG's members have stayed culturally present, ensuring that a full-scale return arrives not as a nostalgic curiosity but as a genuine event capable of filling the world's largest stadiums.

“An act of this heritage returning at stadium scale shows just how durable K-pop's biggest names have become.”

— A K-pop industry observer

What happens next

Attention now turns to ticketing, with an official tour title and on-sale details still to be confirmed. Given the group's profile and the long gap since their last outing, demand for the London and Paris dates is expected to be intense, and the structure of presales and any fan-verification measures will be watched closely.

Beyond the immediate scramble for tickets, the tour will serve as a barometer for the continued strength of veteran K-pop in Western stadium markets. A strong run would reaffirm that the genre's first-generation superstars can still command the largest venues in the world, nearly two decades after they first emerged.